Did you know that 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above? I’m serious! wait where’re you going?

Did you know that 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”, and when you click “post “, the answer will be really obvious.

I’ve now got this message so many times I can’t count it. Is everybody trying to call me stupid? Nobody reveals the answer so are they trying to find it out by sending it on? (I haven’t sent it yet, keeping my dignity see… yeah right).

So what is the answer? Is it that everything’s repeated? Rack your brains.

You want a riddle? How about this:

Juliet comes home one night, and goes to her bedroom. Romeo is always there. She sees the window open so crosses over and closes it before going to sleep. In the morning she is alerted that Romeo has been found dead, outside, it a pool of water and broken glass. Below the same window. The bedroom’s on the ground floor. What’s going on?!?!

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Romeo is a fish. Who lives in a glass bowl. On the window sill. And is knocked off by Juliet when she closes the window. Romeo dies because he has no water since the bowl smashed.
Anywhere close?
Or is it too out there?

Ding ding. Ash has the correct answer, as does Andre M. Romeo is a fish (and I thought I was special when I worked it out…). I realised it would have been a good idea to leave the answer as a comment… My bad.

Thanks Gypsy. And Fandango, glad to hear someone is real, but the riddle was a one time thing really. Unless another memory / riddle pops into my head…

Thanks deathwombat, it was a secret plea to find out the answer. Obviously I would not have been let into UCSD, but you would have been. Erm, congrats…

My guess is Romeo was banging Juliet’s mother who was on the top floor. He fell off the ladder when Juliet’s dad hit him on the head with a wine bottle breaking it embedding some pieces onto his skull which came apart when he fell into the pool of water.

It is also very possible that there is no error (besides the missing apostrophe, which could be a typo in recopying it so many times), and that the entire point is to get everybody to post it, trying to find the answer, and so propagating the message. Kind of a manual worm virus…

There’s nothing wrong with the pattern. I’m pretty sure the “problem” is that there’s now apostrophe in the “Whats wrong here?” That’s probably why whoever posted it originally is so specific about the title you’re supposed to re-post it as. That’s why its supposed to be “really obvious.” Kinda silly in my opinion, but what you going to do?

strange, I saw the post on facebook, but it’s written as “What’s wrong here” there is no original or secondary title missing an apostrophe, this leads me to believe that the apostrophe wasn’t the point of the joke.

Regardless of “what’s wrong here” or “whats wrong here” you are #1 when people search on google: “Did you know that 80%” — looks like you’ve been blogging for about 3 months. How are the views? Get over 200 yet? You’ve got quite a few comments meaning there’s a bit of traffic…or people just like you. 😉

Ok this has been presented as being an IQ test at UCSD, so the grammar should have been obvious to their high flying students. The joke here is that Americas best (like many of us) are pretty bad at spotting what’s right under our noses.

the only up side is if you got it congratulations, you are among the top %20 on the planet.
Oh and if not you are just lazy 😉

Heh… it comes in different versions. There’s the one lacking the apostrophe (in “whats” like this one), the one where the Is are lowercased Ls (which they’re not in this one… try copying it into an texteditor where it’s easier to distinguish), the one where one of the Os are a zero and then the one where the question mark is missing (our case seems to qualify for that too). …dunno anymore of them…

I’m fairly sure the original is either the “whats” or the question mark, since the trick is that you’ll realize it when you type in the subject of the message… (most people will tend to use proper grammar in what they’re writing themselves)

The error mentioned is a logic error. The intent is that the error is the title “what’s wrong here?” as there is suppose to be nothing wrong with the sequence that follows. That is the error people could not find as people assume that it talking just about the sequence. However, it says “find the error above,” meaning this includes the title. The title is flawed (logic error) as nothing is wrong (or meant to be unless someone messed up in copying it).

Hope that helps. It is pretty stupid when you think about it, but that is the error above that it wants you to spot.

Our 8th grader doesn’t know there are different versions of this riddle. No matter the ortographic remarks (apostrophes or not), the riddle just asks what is wrong. I would simply say that the answer is “nothing is wrong”.

I believe the original thing is that there are lowercase lll instead of III. Why? Because when you push “Post” the mail you just sent will be previewed in a fixed font where you can spot the error. Hence “when you click “post “, the answer will be really obvious”.

However, some moron thought he/she could just type the alphabet when he/she would repost it.

So I think this is pretty neat – I’m inclined to think that it really was intended to be a practical joke, but the whole fixed width font argument is excellent. It’s cool that not only are there are some real versions where there actually is something wrong, there are some versions where (presumably) someone has retyped it “wrong” (i.e., correctly) and it doesn’t work.

The self referential “wrong” argument (there’s nothing wrong, which is something wrong) would have been great – you’d just need to rewrite it as:

It states at the bottom: Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”

Since the question mark is not included in the quotation my best guess is that the creator was telling everyone to post the title without the question mark, therefore posting bad grammar. I think there is nothing wrong with the alphabet and that was added to prevent us from noticing the actual mistake. 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above because they were too busy examining the alphabet.

In my opinion it is a really dumb riddle. The fish riddle was much better.

Just wanted to let everyone know that the comment by bam sum (comment number 30) was on the right track. When you click the forward button the auto spell check underlines every 3 letter combo except AAA, BBB(took me awhile to figure out what that stood for), III (should look like the roman numeral 3),KKK, SSS,and WWW. They all abbreviate for something that the computer can recognize as an abbreviation. Its not a big mystery but its fun to see this continuously float around the internet.

Their is nothing wrong. When it says 80% of students can’t find the error, it literally means 80% couldn’t find any error cause there is no error. And it seems like most people here couldn’t find the error. The idea is for MOST people to tax themselves trying to find an error when none exists, hence “80% can’t find it”.

yeah i think there is no error too..cos there’s another one about numbers which says that the same thing about the 80% of UCSD students not being able to find it. this one goes like

find the error, its impossible

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Did you know that 80% of UCDS students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “Find the error, its impossible”, and when you click “Submit Post”, the answer will be really obvious

is “its” suppose to be “it’s”? i dont know u be the judge..i think its suppose to be nothing because when i reposted it and nothing happened i felt like a dumbass and i think thats the point..

but apparently this one is also in the title. because it states that its impossible however 20% of the students got it so thats supposed to be the error. but imagine if it was some kid who thought of fucking with ppls minds by creating this and watching the world crack their heads about it..it wud be fun to be in his shoes right now..he cud be reading this and laughing his ass off..

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Did you know that 80% of UCDS students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “Find the error, its impossible”, and when you click “Submit Post”, the answer will be really obvious

Guys, this is an ancient myspace prank, its been around since 2004 ( at least). There is no error, its just meant to frustrate people. The 80% (insert random school here) who didn’t find anything didn’t give in and make something up because they expected to find an error. Sorry to break it to you.

Error 1: “Find the error” is a sentence and should end with a period.
Error 2: “its” is possessive but should be a contraction of “it is:” therefore, it should have an apostrophe.
Error 3: “Since “it’s impossible” is a sentence, “it’s” should have the i capitalized.
Error 4: “Since “It’s impossible” is a sentence, it should have punctuation at its end. Suggestions are a period or colon.
ERROR 5: IT is Possible. Since it is possible and there are more than one Error, Error should be Plural. (Find the Errors.)

It’s amazing to see a riddle like this reborn again and again. this post and these comments are alive for already almost 3 years!

My guess the same as Christina’s: If it is “impossible” to find an error, how come that 20 % of UCDS which is actually a kindergarten managed to solve??
OK, maybe this was a typo, should read UCSD, but the answer would be the same.

Another guess: it is completelly wrong to forward this kind of stuff to all your contacts. Don’t do it!